PARABLE OF THE ANT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13774, 11 May 1915, Page 7

PARABLE OF THE ANT.

Speaking in Welsh at tJio end of his rccer-K address in Wales, Me Lloyd Ge<y<rc made mo , o f nn o \ c [ Welsh logon.l to show how everybody can beef some service in the war. He said: ''War is a time of sacrifice and of service. Some ran render one service, some another, some here, and some them. Some can render great, assistance, others buL little. There is not one who cannot help in some measure, whether it only be by enduring cheerfully his share .of the discomfort. In the ok! Welsh legends there is a story ©fa man -vho was faced with a series 'ol what appeared to be imposs;blc iaski to perform ere he could reacii the desires of his heart. Amongst other things he had to do was to recover every grain of seed that ; had been sown in a large field, and bring it all in without one missing. By sunset he cam© to an ant hill, and Iwon nil the hearts and enlisted the [.•sympathies of the industrious litfc'epcop'.o. They spread over the field, and hefore sundown the seed was all in exeep: one, and.as the sun was setting ever the western skies a lame ant hobbVf* along with ■ that grain also. Somo%of us have youth and vigour and supfMmess of limb, some of us are cripp'od with years or infirmities, and we arc ot best hut little ants; but we can '-.V. limp along,, .with some share of our country's burden, and thus help her i/i this terrible hour to win the desire of her heart."